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http://dx.doi.org/10.29214/damis.2018.37.2.013

A study of the Effects of Accounting Comparability between Korean firms and Foreign Firms on Foreign Investment under K-IFRS  

Baek, Jeong-Han (College of Management, Dongguk University)
Kwak, Young-Min (College of Business Administration, Ulsan University)
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Management & Information Systems Review / v.37, no.2, 2018 , pp. 259-281 More about this Journal
Abstract
Advocates of mandatory IFRS adoption claim that IFRS increase financial statement comparability, which in turn leads to greater cross-border investment(Securities and Exchange Commision, 2008). The notion is that improved financial statement comparability reduces the information acquisition costs of global investors and thereby increase their investment in foreign firms. The purpose of this study is to examine this assertion by examining whether the K-IFRS adoption rusults in improved comparability that leads to increased investment by foreign investment. We also examined whether the relation between comparability and foreign investment has strengthen after adoption of K-IFRS. To achieve the purpose of our study, we measure Korean firms comparability using stock price model, stock return model and cash flow from operation model by Barth et al.(2012). We use both foreign ownership in the end of year and average during the year for dependent variables were to reduce bias. We test our hypothesis using 1,817 firm-year observation of KOSPI firms during the period of our analysis, 2011-2015. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find K-IFRS adoption results in a greater increase in foreign investment in firms with high comparability firms. This result indicate that the adoption of K-IFRS intends to achieve the international accounting convergence as stated in the roadmap and to reduce the Korea Discount.
Keywords
IFRS; Comparability; Foreign investor; Accounting convergence;
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